by mtraphagen | Mar 13, 2013 | Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, SMX West
Ari Nahmani live diagnosed the link profiles of a number of sites during this session at SMX West 2013, along with Search Engine Land’s Elisabeth Osmeloski and Kaila Strong. If you are distributing an embedded widget or free plugin, make the anchor text all...
by mtraphagen | Mar 13, 2013 | Content Marketing, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, SMX West, Social Media
The Veg-O-Matic Approach to Smart SEO Writing – Heather Lloyd Heather Lloyd-Martin is a 20-year marketing veteran and recognized author. She is President and CEO of SuccessWorks, a marketing firm providing search engine optimized copywriting Once upon a time it...
by mtraphagen | Mar 12, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, SMX West, Social Media
What is Google Authorship? What is Author Rank? Why should you use Authorship? From SMX West, 12 March 2013. Panelists: Mike Arnesen, SwellPath (@mike_arnesen) AJ Kohn, Blind Five Year Old (@ajkohn) (There was another panelist, but I decided to just blog those...
by mtraphagen | Mar 11, 2013 | Google, Presentations, SEO, SMX West
At SMX West today we were invited to walk a mile in Google’s shoes, as Matt Cutts with Patrick Thomas of the Search Quality Team led us through the kinds of dilemmas a search engine faces regularly in deciding when, and when not, to censor results. Should Google...
by mtraphagen | Mar 11, 2013 | Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, SMX West
Google’s Matt Cutts and Bing’s Duane Forrester at SMX West, March 11 2013 Matt Cutts: Examples of Totally Bogus Spam Matt started off by showing some examples of glaringly obvious spam sites. He asked us not to blog about them to protect privacy. But he...
by mtraphagen | Mar 11, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Presentations, SEO, SMX West
A live blog of the Google Dance session at SMX West, San Jose CA, March 11, 2013 Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (@dannysullivan) Speakers: Rhea Drysdale, Outspoken Media Inc. (@Rhea) Mitul Gandhi, seoClarity (@seoclarity) Marcus Tober, Searchmetrics...
by mtraphagen | Mar 11, 2013 | Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, SMX West, Social Media
Presented by Debra Mastaler, President, Alliance-Link (@debramastaler). A live blog of an SEO Boot Camp session at SMX West in San Jose, CA, March 11, 2013. Part One: Concept of Link Popularity There are five major engines, but Google is by far #1. The other four...
